Question_1: I personally like to run from the MicroSD. The eMMC is there if something goes wrong on the MicroSD and I need a quick edit on the MicroSD to get back running. An 8GB MicroSD card is very inexpensive these days and it's easier to just pop the MicroSD in a reader and ( dd if=/dev/MyMicroSD of=/MyBackup.img ) to create a backup or duplicate cards using DD in the reverse direction from my backup.
One note. Just to keep the MicroSD from writing too much when I am running, I placed this mountpoint in the [ /etc/fstab ] and write all my web stuff there. This way all my frequently written stuff goes there, it's temporary anyway but written frequently and ram is a good place for it. tmpfs /ramfs tmpfs defaults,size=20m 0 0 -Bruce- On Friday, May 9, 2014 6:28:28 PM UTC-4, Brian Lloyd wrote: > > I am fairly certain that this has been answered but I have spent the last > two hours perusing the Wiki, the website, and the forums looking for a > definitive path to move my BBB from Angstrom to Debian. I am left with some > questions which I am pretty certain someone has already answered but I > still need pointers. > > 1. Is it better to run Debian from MicroSD or from the eMMC? > 2. My native OS environment is MacOS. I have decompressed both Debian > images on my Mac. For the MicroSD it seems the easy way to write the image > is with dd using a 512-byte blocksize (one sector), right? > 3. Is there a way to write the eMMC image from MacOS? I'd rather not > have to boot up Windows if I can avoid it. (After all, we are trying to > run > linux and having to run Windows in order to do maintenance on a Linux > system just seems ... wrong.) > 4. Is there a way to write the eMMC image from the running BBB? Seems > that maybe I get it running from MicroSD and then rewrite the eMMC. > > Thank you. > > Brian > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
